238 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Au 



Vexatious and burdensome restrictions have constantly to 

 be met, but the trade has continued to g"rovv notwithstand- 

 ing-. During-the fiscal year 1892there were 38,152,874 pounds 

 inspected for export, 22,025,698 pounds going- to countries 

 requiring inspection and 16,127,176 to countries not requir- 

 ing it, while In 1899 the total shipment was 108,928,195, of 

 which 108,858,149 went countries requiring- inspection and 

 70,046 to countries not requiring- it. 



The reg-ulations for this work provide that a microscopic 

 examination be made of all hog- products which are for ex- 

 port to countries requiring- such examination. The follow- 

 ing- from the regulations shows the method of operation: 



When the slaughtered hog is passed into the cooling- room 

 of said establishment, the inspector in charg-e, or his as- 

 sistants, will take from each carcass three samples of mus- 

 cle — one from the "pillar of the diaphrag^m," one from the 

 psoas muscle, and the other from the inner aspect of the 

 shoulder, and also from the base of the tong-ue when that 

 org-an is retained for exportation ; and said samples will be 

 placed in small tin boxes, and a numbered tag- will be placed 

 upon the carcass from which said samples have been taken, 

 and a duplicate of said tag- will be placed in the box with 

 said samples. The small boxes will be placed in a larg-e tin 

 box provided with a lock. The boxes containing the sam- 

 ples from the hog-s in the cooling- room so tag-g-ed will be 

 taken to the microscopist for such establishment, who shall 

 thereupon cause a microscopic examination of the contents 

 of each box containing- samples to be made, and shall fur- 

 nish a written report to the inspector, g-ivingthe result of 

 said microscopic examination, together with the numbers 

 of all carcasses affected with trichinse. The samplesof pork 

 microscopically examined shall be classified as follows : 



Class A. — Samples in which there are no signs of tri- 

 chinaj, living- or dead, calcified cysts, or other bodies or 

 substances having- any resemblance to trichina? or trichinae 

 cysts. 



Class B. — Samples in which they are disinteg-rated tri- 

 chinae cysts, calcified trichinae cysts or bodies having- any 

 resemblance thereto. 



